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Good piece by a brilliant lawyer

 

James Comey was lying in wait.

 

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His gun was cocked, he took aim and fired. But his weapon was empty.

 

Three months ago, the then-FBI Director met with President Trump. Following their private conversation, Comey did what he always does –he wrote a memorandum to himself memorializing the conversation. Good lawyers do that routinely.

 

Now, only after Comey was fired, the memo magically surfaces in an inflammatory New York Times report which alleges that Mr. Trump asked Comey to end the Michael Flynn investigation.

 

Those who don’t know the first thing about the law immediately began hurling words like “obstruction of justice”, “high crimes and misdemeanors” and “impeachment“. Typically, these people don’t know what they don’t know.

 

Here is what we do know.

 

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Under the law, Comey is required to immediately inform the Department of Justice of any attempt to obstruct justice by any person, even the President of the United States. Failure to do so would result in criminal charges against Comey. (18 USC 4 and 28 USC 1361) He would also, upon sufficient proof, lose his license to practice law.

 

So, if Comey believed Trump attempted to obstruct justice, did he comply with the law by reporting it to the DOJ? If not, it calls into question whether the events occurred as the Times reported it.

 

Obstruction requires what’s called “specific intent” to interfere with a criminal case. If Comey concluded, however, that Trump’s language was vague, ambiguous or elliptical, then he has no duty under the law to report it because it does not rise to the level of specific intent. Thus, no crime.

 

There is no evidence Comey ever alerted officials at the Justice Department, as he is duty-bound to do. Surely if he had, that incriminating information would have made its way to the public either by an indictment or, more likely, an investigation that could hardly be kept confidential in the intervening months.

 

Comey’s memo is being treated as a “smoking gun” only because the media and Democrats, likely prompted by Comey himself, are now peddling it that way.

 

Comey will soon testify before Congress about this and other matters. His memo will likely be produced pursuant to a subpoena. The words and the context will matter.

 

But by writing a memo, Comey has put himself in a box. If he now accuses the President of obstruction, he places himself in legal jeopardy for failing to promptly and properly report it. If he says it was merely an uncomfortable conversation, he clears the president of wrongdoing and sullies his own image as a guy who attempted to smear the man who fired him.

 

Either way, James Comey comes out a loser. No matter. The media will hail him a hero.

 

After all, he gave them a good story that was better than the truth.

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It was early but once he told Comey to stop the investigation and then fired him then the timeline speeded up. This is Republicans bringing it up. Shouldnt have threatened Comey by revealing hes taping.

Just another donnie fiction.....no way he tapes the OO given his penchant for shady shit

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Bill Clinton got his dick sucked and then lied under oath about it as the President.

 

Didn't get impeached.

 

Trump gonna need to step it up maybe run a train on some illegal mexican babes in the white house.

WJ Clinton was impeached, but the charging topic was insufficient to inspire his resignation

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